Commission Regulation (EC) No 2166/98 of 8 October 1998 fixing, for the 1997/98 marketing year, the amount to be paid by the sugar manufacturers to the beet sellers in respect of the difference between the maximum amount of the B levy and the amount of that levy
Date: 1998-10-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: farm prices, marketing, sugar beet, sugar industry, sugar levy

9. 10. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 273/19

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2166/98

of 8 October 1998

fixing, for the 1997/98 marketing year, the amount to be paid by the sugar
manufacturers to the beet sellers in respect of the difference between the
maximum amount of the B levy and the amount of that levy

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in particular Article 29(5)
thereof,

Whereas Article 29(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
provides in particular that when the amount of the B levy
is less than the maximum amount referred to in Article
28(4) of the said Regulation, revised, where necessary, in
accordance with paragraph 5 of that same Article, the
sugar manufacturers shall be required to pay the beet
sellers 60 % of the difference between the maximum
amount of the levy in question and the amount of the
levy to be charged; whereas Article 8(1) of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 1443/82 of 8 June 1982 laying
the quota
down detailed rules for the application of
system in the sugar sector (3), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 392/94 (4), provides that the amount referred
to in Article 29(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall
be fixed at the same time as the production levies and in
accordance with the same procedure;

sugar; whereas

transpired that in so far as sugar is concerned the amount
of the B levy to be charged for the said marketing year
shall only be 36,8891 % of the intervention price for
white
in
conformity with Article 29(2) of Regulation (EEC) No
1785/81, that the amount to be paid by the sugar manu-
facturers to the beet sellers should be fixed per tonne of
beet of the standard quality and at the rate of 60 % of the
said difference;

this difference

requires,

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Sugar,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The amount referred to in Article 29(2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1785/81 to be paid by the sugar manufacturers
to the beet sellers in respect of the B levy shall be fixed
for the 1997/98 marketing year at ECU 0,30 per tonne of
beet of the standard quality.

Article 2

Whereas for the 1997/98 marketing year the maximum
amount of the B levy has been fixed for sugar at 37,5 %
of the intervention price for white sugar; whereas it has

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 8 October 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3. 6. 1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 158, 9. 6. 1982, p. 17.
(4) OJ L 53, 24. 2. 1994, p. 7.